Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Imai to enter MLB posting process Nov. 19

Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Imai will enter the MLB posting process starting Nov. 19, according to agent Scott Boras ...
GovCon Wire

Coast Guard Seeks Industry Input on Variable Infrastructure Award Contract Vehicle

According to the notice posted on the Acquisition Planning Forecast System Friday, the follow-on contract, a recompetition of the USCG’s current Infrastructure Managed Services, or IMS, blanket ...
TheServerSide

User input and Java's JOptionPane example

The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them how to use the highly visual and user-friendly JOptionPane class from the Swing package. With one simple ...
InfoWorld

Enter the parallel universe of Java’s Vector API

The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations. If there is one thing you can describe as an obsession for both ...
TheServerSide

How to set JAVA_HOME in Windows

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...
InfoWorld

Better than reflection: Using method handles and variable handles in Java

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...
GitHub

Gradle should treat the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable as an implicit task input

Currently, gradle has a bunch of environment/system settings that it automatically considers to be task inputs. For example, the test task automatically includes the following (among many others): ...